Anthony Testa - The Key of the Abyss.pdf

phenomenon (though its adherents would deny it) and the Aeon, as
Richard Metzger tells us; would be characterized by the magickal
formula of bloodshed and blind force, the tearing down of the
established orders to make way for the new. Crowley held the two
World Wars as evidence of this, but did not see the Horus-force as
evil, rather as embodying the innocence of a hyperactive child who is
like a bull in a china shop. 6 The Goddess Babalon does not appear in
the Book of the Law and is not really inducted into Crowley’s
pantheon until his visions in Algeria in 1909. Babalon, Metzger also
says is a Thelemic counterpart of Kali or Isis, was described by
Parsons as, "... black, murderous and horrible, but Her hand is
uplifted in blessing and reassurance: the reconciliation of opposites,
the apotheosis of the impossible." 7
Parsons was a remarkable man, scientist and mystic, chemist and
alchemist. As we shall see, confluence of events that precipitated the
Babalon Working were extraordinary but, in relation to Parsons life as
a whole, no more extraordinary than the man himself.
6 John Whiteside Parsons: Anti-Christ Superstar, Richard Metzger, Book of Lies: The
Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult, Richard Metzger, Disinfo 2005
7 ibid
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